The Star March 2020 • Volume 42, Number 8

Contents 50 Words for 50 Years Request ...... 6 50 Words for 50 Years Responses ...... 4 Calendar ...... 12, 13 DonaEon Acknowledgements ...... 7 How to Reach Us ...... 4 Kol Isha—Choir’s Annual Music Shabbat .... 4 Kol Isha—Choir’s Annual Music Shabbat Flyer ...... 11 LeYer from Lois Rosenfeld ...... 6 ParenEng Through a Jewish Lens Flyer ...... 8 People of Chelm Want to Know Answers .... 6 People of Chelm Want to Know QuesEons . 3 Purim Dinner Flyer ...... 10 Purim Shpiel Flyer ...... 9 ’s Page ...... 5 Schedule of Services ...... 3 Things We Need to Know for Ourselves and Our Parents Flyer ...... 2

Congrega(on Beth Elohim Michael Rothbaum, Rabbi 133 Prospect Street Sarra Spierer, Cantor Acton, MA 01720 Beth R. Goldstein, RJE, Director of EducaEon Susan C. Perry, Director, Early Learning Center

Ezra Habif, Administrator Lewis Mintz, Rabbi Emeritus Congregation Beth Elohim THE STAR March 2020

CBE ADULT EDUCATION PRESENTS Things We Need to Know for Ourselves and Our Parents A series of presentations about end of life issues

Estate Planning with Barbara Epstein, Sunday, March 1, 10:00-11:30 AM Estate planning is sometimes thought of as limited to saving taxes for people of financial means. However, the broader and more realistic view is that estate planning is necessary for anyone who wishes to direct the transfer of his or her assets on death or to manage those assets during incapacity or incompetency. In addition, for those with minor children or beneficiaries with special needs, estate planning is even more critical.

Attorney Barbara Epstein of Scheier, Katin & Epstein in Acton, a member of CBE, will give a 60 minute presentation on the fundamentals of estate planning and then answer your questions on the topic.

Jewish Burial Customs with Hal Miller-Jacobs, Sunday, March 29, 10:00-11:30 AM Reciting Kaddish and Yizkor for a departed loved one is a basic Jewish custom most are familiar with. Yet many are not familiar with the loving custom of how we care for the departed in preparation for what many believe is the afterlife. The process of taharah, ritual washing of the deceased is done by a caring cadre of individuals.

Hal Miller-Jacobs, formerly of Acton, now resides in Lexington. He is a cofounder the Community Hevra Kadisha of Greater Boston.

Free and open to all. Congregation Beth Elohim, 133 Prospect Street, Acton.

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- 2 - March 2020 THE STAR Congregation Beth Elohim Schedule of Services March 3, 4, 5 3:55 PM Mincha Service (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) Friday, March 6 5:30 PM Tot Shabbat Service Friday, March 6 7:00 PM Ruach Shabbat Service—Dalet Classe Participation Saturday, March 7 9:30 AM Shacharit Service Saturday, March 7 10:30 AM Study Followed by Pot Luck Kiddush Monday, March 9 6:00 PM Erev Purim Service Monday, March 9 6:30 PM Megillah Reading March 10, 11, 12 3:55 PM Mincha Service (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) Friday, March 13 7:30 PM Shabbat Service Saturday, March 14 9:30 AM Shacharit Service Saturday, March 14 10:30 AM Torah Study Followed by Pot Luck Kiddush Sunday, March 15 8:30 AM Shacharit Service March 17, 18, 19 3:55 PM Mincha Service (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) Friday, March 20 7:30 PM Shabbat Service Saturday, March 21 9:30 AM Shacharit Service Saturday, March 21 10:30 AM Torah Study Followed by Pot Luck Kiddush March 24, 25, 26 3:55 PM Mincha Service (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) Friday, March 27 7:30 PM Shabbat Service—Shabbat Shirah Saturday, March 28 9:30 AM Shabbat Service—Beatrice Maxwell Bat Mitzvah Tuesday, March 31 3:55 PM Mincha Service

Reviving the column devoted to Babylonian Exile and is set in the court of the Persian questions about Jewish history called king Ahaseurus. Some scholars believe this king could well be the same Xerxes who ruled when the The People of Chelm Want To Know… Greeks triumphed at the Battle of Marathon. The After a decade of dormancy, this column was revived Bible's Book of Esther records the destruction of several months ago in The Star. Each month there are Haman. This book is one of the "Five Scrolls.” Each of now two fairly difficult questions, and you should be the five is written on its own scroll, which is read in congratulated for trying to wrestle with them. If you its entirety during the appropriate holiday service. don’t know an answer, you will find it elsewhere in Can you match the other four scrolls: Song of Songs; this issue of The Star. March, the time of Purim, is an the Book of Ruth; the Book of Ecclesiastes; and occasion for singing and celebration, so this month’s Lamentations, with the holiday on which it is recited? questions have these themes. Please share your new The holiday choices are: the Ninth of Av (Tisha b’Av); knowledge with your neighbors, fellow congregants, ; Sukkot; and Shavu'ot. and especially the people of Chelm. In Jewish folklore, the people of Chelm were famed for coming 2. On Friday night March 27 our up with bizarre and incorrect answers to even the celebrates Shabbat Shirah, the Sabbath of Song. simplest questions. Under the direction of longtime leader Judy Kramer and with help from Cantor Sarra Spierer, our choir 1. Early this month we celebrate an atypically rehearses rigorously for months hoping to be their boisterous and crazy Jewish Holiday. Our fellow absolute best on this joyous evening. This year’s congregants mark the occasion with delightful program promises to be every bit as entertaining as it comedic performances of Purim Spiel; this year on has been in years past. Like many traditions in the weekend of March 7 and 8. As we know, Purim Judaism, Shabbat Shirah’s roots are in the Torah. Do commemorates the victory of Mordecai and Esther you know what event inspired the Sabbath of Song over the wicked Haman and his plot to eliminate the and who were the first singers? . This story takes place several decades after the

- 3 - Congregation Beth Elohim THE STAR March 2020 CBE Annual Music Shabbat 50 Words for 50 Years Judy Kramer [email protected]

CBE is there for us. Kol Isha—A Woman’s Voice Celebra(ng Jewish Women Composers We are there for CBE. Friday, March 27, 7:30 Through B'nai Mitzvah, Shpiels, Brotherhood, For centuries, the voices of Jewish women were Sisterhood, softball, celebrations, and more, CBE silent. Kol Isha, a woman’s voice, was meant as a has woven us into the fabric of our shared beliefs. strict prohibition of hearing women singing and essentially no women were composing music for We cherish the past, enjoy the present, and liturgical use. It was not until the mid-20th century welcome the future hand in hand. that Jewish women really began to make their voices heard both in Israel and in America. The CBE Choir’s annual music service will focus on just some of these —Don and Marcy Hoban amazing Jewish women with lyrical liturgical settings by Debbie Friedman, Benjie-Ellen Schiller and Daphna Rosenberg of the Israeli community Y – ou know Nava Tehilla; gospel-inspired songs by Liz Swados E – ach year has just flown by (Miriam) and Lisa Levine (Hallelu); uplifting a A – nd are we blessed? cappella settings by British composer Judith Silver; F – or sure! Here’s why; ‘cause some surprise local connections; Israeli favorites like I – n Dodi Li and Bashanah Haba’ah (yes, composed by F – aith with friends our women!) and so much more. T – emple grew, and Y – ear-by-year with who We’ll have accompaniment by piano, guitar, flute, ! – together helped make us a Temple that clarinet, violin and percussion. Celebrate our !! – We pray makes life for all better as that’s matriarchs and the women in your life by joining us where it’s at! for an inspiring and uplifting evening of music and worship. We look forward to seeing everyone at this With love and smiles for CBE always popular annual choir event! ✡ —Mark and Elaine Kahan

Warm welcome. Fast friends. A place to grow. These are just a few thoughts that come to mind when I think about CBE. I’m a newbie. I don’t How to Reach Us know what this place was before Mike or Beth. I Telephone don’t have a long history, but I belong now and am thankful. The congregation office telephone number is 978-263-3061. Dial these extensions for: —Kerri Garbis Ezra Habif 1 Rabbi Rothbaum 2 As members of CBE, we have found a caring Cantor Spierer 3 religious family and community that provides Beth Goldstein 4 emotional support in bad times and good. We give Susan C. Perry & ELC 5 back by participating in prayer services and Lori Lafayette 7 educational and social activities, and by donating Web Site money and time, which we hope to do for years to Our congregation web site, www.bethelohim.org, come! includes the online edition of The Star as well as a —David and Chips Naparstek variety of other information including a bookstore link (Amazon.com) and a donation form.

- 4 - March 2020 THE STAR Congregation Beth Elohim According to the election website, Rabbi’s Page www.zionistelection.org: Rabbi Mike 978-263-3061 / [email protected] By voting you will be able to choose one of On Kol Nidre, I spoke the many slates representing diverse about Israel—specifically, political beliefs, religious denominations and about our Jewish cultural traditions. The 152 delegates obligation to speak openly elected from the will join and lovingly about our hundreds from Israel and around the world connection to the land and at the 38th World Zionist Congress in its peoples. I quoted October 2020, the international “parliament former Knesset member of the Jewish people”, to make decisions and Rabbi Michael Melchior, set policies regarding key institutions that whom I was blessed to support global Jewish life and which learn with a few years ago, along with a group of allocate nearly $1 Billion annually to Jewish professionals. He talked about his desire for support Israel and World Jewry (including Israel to be a better place, to live up to its most the World Zionist Organization, Jewish cherished values. His strategy was not, however, to National Fund and the Jewish Agency for speak only of Israel’s achievements, considerable as Israel). they are. There are fifteen slates running in the 2020 US Rather, “the best way of connecting people to Israel,” Election for the 38th World Zionist Congress, and Melchior told us, “is to tell them about its they represent a wide spectrum of approaches to dilemmas.” and Jewish life. The American Forum for Israel, for example, is specifically focused on Of course, normally American Jews don’t have much outreach to Russian Jews; the Vote Reform slate is a of a say in how Israel conducts its affairs. We rightly combination of Reform and Reconstructionist Jews, cannot vote in Knesset elections. We can debate and and mentions support for a two-state solution; the argue, but it is Israelis who decide how Israel is ZOA coalition seeks to expand settlement governed. construction; the Hatikva slate promotes LGBTQ At the moment, however, we do have an unusual rights and anti-racism work. opportunity to cast a ballot about Israel. Until March I invite you to visit www.zionistelection.org today, 11, US citizens can vote in elections for the 38th and cast your vote World Zionist Congress. Because, regardless of who you support, voting in Established by Theodor Herzl in 1897, the Zionist the WZO election gives you as an American Jew a Congress was the legislative body of the World voice in determining the allocation of over one Zionist Organization (WZO), a non-governmental billion dollars in annual funding. It also allows entity that promotes Zionism. The first Zionist American Jews an opportunity to have a say on Congress, held in 1897 in Basel, Switzerland, was issues like settlement expansion, religious pluralism, attended by some 200 participants who formulated gender and LGBTQ equality, and economic justice. the Zionist platform, known as the "Basel programme." It took a clear stance in favor of Many of these are challenging problems for our political Zionism, stating that "Zionism seeks for the beloved Israel. May we continue to talk about these Jewish people a publicly recognized legally secured dilemmas, and in doing so deepen and broaden our homeland in Palestine." connection to Israel—both the Israel of today, and the Israel of our dreams. ✡ Today, the Zionist Congress is known as the World Zionist Congress, and is composed of 500 delegates, Yiddish & who meet in Jerusalem every five years. It’s also sometimes known as the “Parliament of the Jewish Contemporary Israeli Music People,” and for good reason. It enables delegates to WERS, 88.9 FM, broadcasts exert influence on both Israeli society and the global Chagigah, Sunday mornings Jewish agenda, as well as allocate financial and other resources to various organizations. 8:00–11:00. - 5 - Congregation Beth Elohim THE STAR March 2020

Dear CBE’rs, 50 Years, 50 Words For 50 years, Congregation Beth Elohim has been As a former CBE congregant, it warms the cockles here for us in times of joy, sorrow and every of my heart to see these great photos from last moment in between. We will be celebrating this month. So happy to see Carolee and George exciting Congregational milestone all year, so we sitting on their couch, Sue Heschel’s inspiring visit ask that you share, in 50 words or less, your and the general affection and activity which reflections of your time at Congregation Beth abounds. Elohim or how you hope CBE will support you and I’m not far away, happily down-sized to Waltham- the Jewish community in the future. on-a-pond, have visited CBE and Rabbi Mike has We look forward to hearing from all of you, new visited with us at BnaiOr of Boston. and old members, to help archive the first 50 years It’s wonderful to see CBE thriving. I’m glad that of this vibrant community. Thanks! my late husband, Mark, got to sing in your choir Questions: Contact Ellen Valade at and I got to strengthen my Judaism as a member [email protected] or Beth Schrager at of Rabbi Emeritus Lewis’ second group Bat [email protected]. Mitzvah class. Despite my husband’s illness, we held a lovely Bat Mitzvah for my daughter Ariana, there. When we moved to Acton in ‘89, we were already BnaiOr members, but wanted to affiliate locally. After we chose CBE, a few people reflected that we seemed more like Kerem Shalom congregants. I never regretted our choice, and especially now, you want to thirty years later, I can say with a full heart, “We’ve come a long way, Baby!” buy a book — From strength to strength, Lois G Rosenfeld When you shop using Amazon Smile, Amazon will donate 0.5%

Answers for the people of Chelm of Ecclesiastes completes the cycle of the megillot. and any other curious souls. 2. Shabbat Shirah typically occurs in January, when 1. Five of the books of Ketuvim (the Writings) share the Torah reading contains the “Song of the Sea.” with the Five Books of (the Torah) the After the escape from Pharaoh’s army through the distinction of being read completely during the Sea of Reeds, the Israelites celebrated their good synagogue service each year. These books are fortune in song. Verses 20 and 21 of Chapter 15 in traditionally called the five scrolls (megillot) since Exodus relate that “Miriam the prophetess, Aaron's each is written on its own scroll. Thus we hear, "the sister, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women whole megilla" on the customary holiday for each. As went out after her in dance with timbrels. And noted in the question itself, the Book of Esther is read Miriam chanted for them, “Sing to God, for God has on Purim. The Song of Songs, with its sensuous love triumphed gloriously….“ Our choir spends several poems, is recited on Passover, followed by the Book months practicing for this very special event. They of Ruth, the story of the first Jewish convert, on want to make sure it does not get snowed out, so Shavu'ot. The Book of Lamentations is read on Tisha that’s why we wait until March for this not-to-be- b'Av, when we lament the destruction of the Temple missed service in song. in Jerusalem. And on Sukkot, the reading of the Book

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Dona(ons

The congregation thanks our members, their relatives and friends, and the larger community for donations recently received…

To the General Fund from: Chesed Fund from: Harold & Judith Salant Dan & Shelley Klein in memory of Elaine Epstein, mother of Marcy Epstein Hoban. Dan & Shelley Klein in memory of Leonard & Ruth Kassman. Amy Naparstek Fund from: Bob & Kathie Becker in memory of Elaine Epstein, Chips & David Naparstek in loving memory of our mother of Marcy Epstein Hoban. daughter, Amy, on the occasion of her yahrzeit. To the Adult Educa(on Fund from: Chips & David Naparstek in loving memory of Chips’ father, Ben Harris, on the occasion of his Anonymous in appreciation of the Scholar in yahrzeit. Residence Weekend. Chips & David Naparstek in loving memory of Choir Fund from: David’s mother, Ida Naparstek, on the occasion of George & Carolee Schaffer in memory of my her yahrzeit. brother, Arthur Schaffer. Chips & David Naparstek in honor of Meryl George & Carolee Schaffer in memory of Michael Widman on the occasion of her special birthday, Ferrara. with love and best wishes. CBE 50th Anniversary Campaign from: Jaymi & Joseph Formaggio

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Purim

Pizza Dinner! Join us before Purim Services for Pizza and Salad.

When: Monday, March 9, 2020 5:30-6:00pm

Who: Everyone!

Cost: $8 per person; $25 per family maximum.

Please RSVP online at the CBE website or to Beth Goldstein at [email protected] by March 6th.

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CBE ANNUAL MUSIC SHABBAT

A WOMAN’S VOICE

MARCH 27, 2020 7:30 PM

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The congregation calendar is also online at http://www.bethelohim.org/calendar

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March 2020

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